pytypos 1.2.1

Typo and spelling checker

Pytypos

Description

Pytypos is a typo and spelling checker used to identify spelling mistakes in comments of a various programming languages, such as Python, Java, C++, C#, Matlab, and others. In addition, it can check other text-oriented files such as MD, RST, TXT, or similar.

Spell checking uses dictionaries installed on the host computer. The dictionary language can be defined in the Pytypos object with dictionary='de' for German, for instance. For installation and management of dictionaries, see the documentation of pyenchant. To list available dictionary languages on the host system, print pytypos.available_languages().

Installation

The easiest way to install is using pip:

pip install pytypos

To install from source:

git clone https://github.com/PApostol/pytypos.git
cd pytypos
python setup.py install

For usage details check help(pytypos).

Usage Examples

The below will recursively scan my/path/project/ for comments (i.e. # this is a comment) in Python files:

from pytypos import Pytypos
prj = Pytypos(target='my/path/project/', match_identifier='#', file_extension='py', recursive=True)
prj.find_typos()
print(prj.typo_list)
print(prj.typo_details)

Pytypos.typo_list stores a list of all possible typos found.

Pytypos.typo_details stores a dictionary with the following structure:

If suggestions = False (default):

{'file1': ['typo1', 'typo2'],
 'file2': ['typo1', 'typo2']
}

If suggestions = True:

{'file1': [{'typo1': ['suggestion1a', 'suggestion1b'],
            'typo2': ['suggestion2a', 'suggestion2b']
           },
 'file2': [{'typo1': ['suggestion1a', 'suggestion1b'],
            'typo2': ['suggestion2a', 'suggestion2b']
           }
}

The above can be nicely printed on stdout with Python's built-in pprint.

Other Examples

# recursively scan "foo/bar/" for any text in RST files and give suggestions, but skip file "foo/UPDATE.rst" and exclude the words "repos" and "GitHub"
Pytypos(target='foo/bar/', match_identifier='', file_extension='rst', recursive=True, suggestions=True, exclude_file_list=['foo/UPDATE.rst'], exclude_word_list=['repos', 'GitHub'])

# scan the "a/b/c.java" Java file for comments (i.e. "// this is a comment") and give suggestions with a french dictionary, but exclude words found in "exclusions.txt"
Pytypos(target='a/b/c.java', match_identifier='//', dictionary='fr', suggestions=True, exclude_word_file='exclusions.txt')

Testing

You can do some simple testing after cloning the repo:

python tests/run_test.py

Note any additional requirements for running the tests: pip install -r tests/requirements.txt

Additional methods

Pytypos.fix_typos(): Fixes typos found in-between spaces with the most likely replacement

Pytypos.add_to_dictionary(): Adds custom word list to dictionary

Pytypos.add_to_exclusions(): Removes custom word list from dictionary

Pytypos.replace_word(): Replaces words in dictionary

License

Released under MIT by @PApostol

• You can freely modify and reuse.
• The original license must be included with copies of this software.
• Please link back to this repo if you use a significant portion the source code.